The Municipal Commission for the Assessment of Damage from Natural Disasters due to the storm that hit the Bjelopol Municipality on Saturday afternoon received 30 requests for assessment of damage from Ribarevino, Ravna Rijeka, Ostrelje and Osoj alone, related to crop production, but also several destroyed rural roads. .
The Municipal Commission confirmed that the most difficult situation was in that part of the municipality, adding that requests are received daily from several other rural areas.
In several cases, the teams of the Protection and Rescue Service, "Komunalno Lim" and the services of the Secretariat for Traffic came to the aid of the locals.
Residents of Ravna Rijeka and Ribarevina in Bijelo Polje told "Vijesti" that even the oldest residents do not remember the town as it fell for 33 minutes.
They explain that all the plantations, orchards, gardens were completely destroyed...
As the famous blackberry farmer said Gojko Nedović, on the branches of the apple tree in the hamlet of Mekote, not a single leaf remained. The blackberry genus has been completely decimated.
"Before the disaster, I managed to harvest and sell 400 kilograms of blackberries, which in the 11 years since I've been growing them, have never given birth like this year, however, about 4,5 tons of the full crop perished. "The little that is left at the branches, according to the representative of the Advisory Service, is not for purchase and cold storage, but only for processing, jams and juices," said Nedović.
Berry producer Igor Petrić told that in a storm in his plantation in Ravna Rijeka, two small trees were killed on an area of 35 ares, on which the expected yield was 7,5 tons.
"We managed to harvest one ton of raspberries before the disaster. It is a late Polka raspberry, which has the highest yield in August and September, and is harvested until the end of October. However, everything was destroyed. Earlier, we harvested 200 kilograms per day, yesterday we didn't harvest even 10 kilograms from the entire plantation, and that was second and third class," Petrić said.
Petrić reminds that the crop was late this year and that the bad weather came at the moment when the yield was the highest. We found a good sale on the coast, but now it's all gone. The most difficult thing is when a person looks at his ordeal and the destroyed fruit that rots with peeled and torn and broken stalks, which will have a negative impact on the following years as well. Because of everything, we wrote requests for help to the Ministry of Agriculture and we also addressed the municipal commission for damage assessment," said Petrić, who lives exclusively with his family from the production of strawberries and raspberries.
Damage from the storm accompanied by heavy rain and hail the size of walnuts hit the city center as well as the Nedakusi settlement and other settlements.
In January, flood damage amounted to 1,2 million euros
In the storm and floods in June of this year, the villages of Ivanje, Radulići, Raklja suffered the worst, where damage was estimated at 132 thousand euros.
"The commission for damage assessment from natural disasters received 44 requests, six for residential buildings and the rest for crop production," he said. Vladimir Femic, president of the commission for natural disasters, adding that after completion, the lists of requests were forwarded to the republican commission for assessing damages from natural disasters.
The worst storm hit the municipality of Bjelopolje in January, when 145 cases of damage were recorded, which was estimated at a total of 1.227.360 euros.
"The direct damage to the citizen is estimated at 769.360 euros, as 460 thousand euros related to the infrastructure," said Femić.
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